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you. well look that wraps it up for us on like it or not, but before we go, make sure you send us your like it or not questions. we want to see it or record yourself asking a question along with where you're from, and you can see it during the show, so send us a message or a comment on instagram or tiktok. let us know what you like about like it or not. i'm dave clark with andre senior james torres. thank you for being here and we'll see you next time on like it or not. yeah. >> i'm ana garcia, right now on true crime news. a man goes missing and no one reports it for three years, including his wife. >> this case was bizarre from the get go. >> years later, a shocking
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discovery. >> that's when the remains were discovered. underneath that concrete slab. >> his wife, the prime suspect. >> i don't know why i've been set up. >> first, she blamed her boyfriend, then her young daughter. >> lies and deceit and double lies and people blaming each other. >> now a verdict we, the jury, find as follows. >> we will bring you the latest. >> then 9-1. what's your emergency? i have just shot my wife. >> it's like a scene out of a horror movie. tina davis is about to get into the shower when she's hit seven times. >> he was cheating on her and it wasn't the first time cheating, lurking, a murder plot and the twist? >> he never saw coming. your daily source for true crime starts right now. we begin with news on the case that captivated the country. a jury saying that lori shaver killed her husband, then buried him in the backyard. she his phone and his facebook and then when they found his
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body, at one point, she said it was her seven year old daughter who did it. a strange and grisly discovery. >> this case was bizarre, to say the least. from the get go. >> investigators are on the grounds of a lake county, florida, home after a call for a welfare check on the deputy's property. >> and then about a month later, we showed up with a search warrant. >> she is lori shaver, a work from home mom, now turned convicted husband killer. >> and that's when the remains were discovered. underneath that concrete slab. >> it took over three years, but lori's husband, michael shaver, a mechanic who had mysteriously disappeared, would finally be found in his own backyard under a shoddy concrete slab described as a fire pit put there by his own wife. >> it's important to remember that why we are here is because
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michael shaver was shot in the back of his head, without any sort of legal excuse or justification, and nearly ten years after his murder, all the riveting details were unearthed at trial. >> the story of a wife who first shot her guy and then stole his identity. >> so now let's focus on the totality of circumstances, showing how she his facebook. >> prosecutors told jurors lori used shaver's facebook page posing as the dead man to mask his murder, sending messages to his own family and friends to leave him alone and to his boss saying he was quitting and moving to georgia. >> i don't know why i've been targeted, why i've been set up or charged with this heinous crime. >> after her arrest while out on bond, lori made a highly produced video post on youtube claiming her innocence. her
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lawyer appearing to say she was actually a battered wife. >> lori was the victim of repeated physical violence by michael. >> the apparent evidence a year before michael disappeared, lori filed a police report and called 911. >> what's going on? >> oh, it was a domestic violence with you. >> okay. are you okay? >> i just hit my ex in the head with a gun that he had pulled out on me. i grabbed my gun because he has a gun and i have a gun. i said seitzer. and now on the way to the sheriff's office at trial, lori actually testifies, breaking down over her volatile relationship with michael. >> i'm saying, okay, okay, okay, we can work it out. he told me, not this time. >> was he upset about anything in particular that you're aware of? >> yes. he found out i was. i had gotten pregnant. >> lori claimed it was her then seven year old daughter who pulled the trigger to protect
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her mom from being attacked by michael, the now 15 year old isabel shaver, whose face was not shown, tried to take the fall. >> i shot him. >> do you feel when you fired that shot that that had to be done, or he would have killed your mother? >> yes, yes, yes. >> firm on that. >> i'm firm on that. >> as if a seven year old could shoot and kill a grown man, dig a ditch, bury his body, and then cover it with concrete. it didn't make any sense at all. >> and lori's defense attorney offered yet another bombshell, claiming because the little girl's aim was bad, lori's then boyfriend jeremy townsend, was at the home at the time and also shot michael. >> he came in and he took the gun from me and then he shot him again. >> you'll have to assess. was there a right of self-defense? if so, no crime has occurred. >> but prosecutors insist they
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nabbed the real killer. madam clerk, please publish the verdict. the jury agreed. the defendant is guilty of second degree murder. michael's family says it was a long time coming. alicia he did not deserve what happened to him. >> we can be at peace that the story is known by all. >> now, after years of dodging the law, lori shaver was the one ultimately buried under a pile of evidence. much of the prosecution's case hinged on an inconsistent timeline. one timeline we do know. lori shaver's sentencing date is scheduled for november 25th, and she faces the possibility of life in prison. now we turn to one woman's terrifying story. she's a marathon runner, and in the early morning, she's getting ready to go out for a run. she has no idea her husband is
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stalking her, waiting in darkness to attack her. but there is one thing that he didn't plan on. the day started like any other inside this home in ball ground, georgia. >> phone rang about 515 in the morning. >> fitness instructor tina davis was up early when something trips the alarm. >> they said that the alarm had gone off and they asked if they should send the police. >> i knew that something was not right. >> this is 82 security calling to notify of a residential burglar alarm. >> mark mullins tries to reach his mom, but there's no answer. your mother's not answering. the alarm company is called. so you just get in the car and you head over to your mother's. the worried son races toward his mom's house, but before he can arrive, shots ring out. tina davis is struck seven times by gunfire as she's fighting for her life on the bathroom floor. a shocking 911 call 911. >> what's your emergency? i have just shot my wife and also shot
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myself at that moment. >> what did you think had happened? >> i thought he had killed my mom. >> what started as a high school crush for tina davis and ronnie goss rekindled as adults. as fate would have it, ronnie was also newly single. and just like that, they started a whirlwind romance. but for tina davis, that happiness was short lived, stunted by ronnie's wandering eye. tina davis said her husband had three women on the side, but still couldn't imagine going through another painful divorce. were either of you aware that ronnie was cheating on your mother? >> no, not until mom told us that he was going to divorce him. he was cheating on her, and it wasn't the first time. that's one of the biggest betrayals that you can have. >> ronnie begged tina to stay. she refused, and as a precaution, had a security system installed. do you think it was a good idea that your mom get an alarm system on the hous?
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>> yes. it was a good idea. just because of how he had been acting during the divorce. i thought she really needed one. >> for weeks, ronnie refused to accept her decision, trying to talk her out of a divorce, but her mind was made up and that seemed like the end. it was for her. >> i never really thought this could be what he would turn out to be. >> the next morning, ronnie goss is seen here on surveillance cameras at 4:10 a.m. buying coffee at a convenience store close to tina's house. he then drives to her house and parks his company truck in the driveway. familiar with her early morning routine, he sipped on his coffee and waited. >> i didn't have any concerns that something like this would happen. >> like a complete madman in a movie. ronnie, a former military sharpshooter, takes aim at tina hitting her at close range over seven times more shots hitting her hand, her hips, then realizing she's still alive, he
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points the gun at her head at close range. but as he's firing, a bullet ricochets off the bathroom tile and takes out his eye. >> where did you shoot her? at several times. it was with a nine millimeter, and i shot myself in the head, but it went out my eye. >> i didn't know the full extent of what happened until i was approaching her house. and i got a call from mark and he said, ronnie shot mom. >> next he is determined to kill her, but something stops him. >> no. where did you shoot her? at it was with a nine millimeter. and i shot myself in the head. but it went out my ey. >> on the next true crime news, the tik tok killer. a master impressionist. i felt like i was on the passenger seat of my own body with a million followers whose jealousy triggered a double murder. >> yes, ma'am. my wife and another man were found dead on the couch. okay. steph wiggins
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>> now back to this amazing story. what started out as an
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average day for tina davis turned out to be anything but. she was following her usual morning routine. but before she steps into the shower, her estranged husband stalking her in the bushes, cuts the power and attacks her. fitness instructor tina davis is fighting for her life, shot by her husband, ronnie goss. >> 9-1. what's your emergency? i have just shot my wife and also shot myself. >> then a stunning realization as she lay bleeding on the bathroom floor. shot seven times, goss realizes though, he just tried to kill her, his wife is alive. >> can she talk to you? right now? yes, she can talk to me. >> amazingly, tina davis is answering questions as cops arrive on the scene. >> when i arrived here, there was one cop already on the scene. >> and what did you see? >> he had his gun drawn on ronnie in the driveway. >> and how did ronnie look? >> covered head to toe in blood,
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covered head to toe. >> because a bullet deflected off the bathroom tile and hit ronnie's eye. emergency crews rushed to the scene and inside the home, tina davis is remarkably still alert. >> did your husband do this to you? yes. >> okay. and this is tina davis today. it's just a miracle that tina davis survived. she credits a lot of it to first responders. i remember when they rolled me across this arm and i remember screaming out, he said. >> i was so glad when i heard you scream because he was like, if she's screaming, she's still with us. oh, oh, my arm. >> it's okay. just stay with us, all right? >> tina remembers exactly what happened that fateful morning. >> i was just getting ready to get in the shower and all of a sudden the lights went out, the power went off, and i was like, what's going on? and i heard him coming. he said, i told you this couldn't happen. talking about the divorce, he said, there
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ain't nobody else going to have you. and he started shooting. >> there wasn't a moment when i thought she was going to die, but i knew that if she came out of that house, she was going to make it. >> she made it, but not without deep emotional and physical scars. >> bullets went in my right hip, but it didn't pierce anything. and that one is still lodged in my rib cage. >> the bullet that hit her head had a miraculous trajectory. >> didn't break my jaw, didn't hit my tongue, didn't damage my eye. the plastic surgeon went through my bottom eyelid to take the bullet out, and i've got a metal plate in my face and titanium mesh holding my eyeball up. >> it's been a long, grueling journey toward recovery. with weeks in the hospital, dozens of surgeries, and endless physical therapy. what would you say is the darkest moment for you not being able to run? >> when i woke up and realized i couldn't move my legs, that was so hard to wrap my mind around because that was who i was. i was a runner. i was a fitness
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instructor, the fitness instructor who lived for running had to learn to walk again. >> does it pain you to see your mother in a wheelchair? >> it does because i know how much she loved running. but you know, it also makes me grateful because she's still there. you know, when it could be so much, so much different. i watch tina as she dragged her feet up the stairs using her upper body strength, struggling but undeterred. >> i feel uplifted walking with you down your driveway, knowing you are alive and you have survived this in the driveway where emergency workers rushed in to save her, she is able to walk with a new friend who came to her aid. that day. firefighter billy pflugrad. when you think back to what you walked in on that day, did you ever think that miss tina would be standing here with you? >> absolutely. >> that was a tough woman, a
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tough woman to those who came to her rescue, a bright, shining light to her suns. >> your mother is so remarkable. yes. >> she's incredible. her recovery just in the way that she approached it. it redefined perseverance for me. it redefined determination. >> tina has now traded in her running shoes for spin classes, and spends time with the first responders who helped her stay alive. and a determined tina walks through the finish line at the annual charity run started by her nieces, called tina's cat run, named after her love of running and pets. how do you remain so positive and so hopeful after everything that's happened to you? >> well, you can ask my boys. i don't like whining. i mean, there's only thing that makes the situation worse is to whine about it. it's just not who i
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am. >> ronnie goss is now behind bars, serving 65 years for attempted murder, and tina points to one thing that may have saved her life that fateful day. is it just karma or just a little bit of justice that ronnie shot his eye out trying to kill you? >> oh, is that karma? instant karma? if he had not shot his eye out, would he have not missed my head? i mean, so it's just all all a miracle. >> tina still living in that house. but she has remodeled the bathroom to erase any signs of what happened. tina has reclaimed her life, and her two suns have been by her side the whole time. her strength and determination is really beyond anything i've ever seen. she may not be able to run marathons, but she has survived the ultimate test of strength. she's alive when we come back. there are new details in the gilgo beac wow. that's good. almond breeze? you like the almond breeze i got you... that's sooo interesting.
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>> there's news on the gilgo beach serial killer case. jody goldberg, fox five new york, tell us more, and the suffolk county district attorney is asking for the public's help to identify asian doe, who is one of the victims found along ocean parkway near gilgo beach. >> now he's believed to be a male who, at the time of his death was wearing women's clothing and may have been working in the sex trade. they released a sketch of what this victim would have looked like. they haven't ruled out a link to rex heuermann, who has already been charged with the deaths of six women found along ocean parkway and out east heuermann, according to his search history, had looked up asian trans sex workers. they're asking members of the community, the asian community, to donate to genealogy banks to help give a name to the victim. anna. >> thank you. jody goldberg, a fox five new york next a crash. the driver pinned inside and a
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>> on the next true crime news, the tiktok killer. a master impressionist. i felt like i was on the passenger seat of my own body, with a million followers whose jealousy triggered a double murder. >> yes, ma'am. my wife and another man were found dead on the couch. okay. sac fly. lohin >> secret recordings a shocking confession and his outrageous courtroom outburst. >> i've never seen that in a discovery. i've been incarcerated three years. >> you never showed that to my team. where did you get that? >> on the next true crime news. for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. watch more exclusive content on our youtube channel. listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. before we go, we have an incredible rescue to share with you in this one, the
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men and women in blue risked their lives to save another, and it is all caught on a body camera. a man is trapped inside a burning truck on interstate 35, in lewisville, texas. he's unconscious. >> i need you to get out. >> four police officers rushed to the scene and they sprang into action, beating back the flames enough to pull the man out alive. he was sent to the hospital and thankfully is in good shape. the officers were later commended for their bravery and their quick response. that's it for today's true crime news, i'm anna garcia. join us next time. crime does n' (tense music) - [elizabeth] today on "icrime," a man uses a baby as a human shield. (police sirens wail) - [officer] put the kid down! - [elizabeth] a pair of spring-breakers on a collision course with the law, (police sirens wail) (police radio chatter) and this. (people clamoring) (car crunching) (police siren wails)

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